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Delivery management platform has become the most important part of every e-commerce business including giant industries up to the small businesses.We are providing a system where the customer can get their own products transferred from one place to another within a radius of 50 km on the same day.Thus, to make the delivery process safe and consistent for customers to their doorsteps, web applications can be developed.This application can help customers to schedule a delivery of any package of their choice to the respective beneficiary (destination) customer.Customers can track their packages and can review the delivery boy on site as the delivery boy is responsible for secure delivery.This system helps the customer in transferring their goods through safe hands and also provides the option of schedule to transfer their goods.The delivery will be done within one to two hours (tentative).Customers need to provide the details asked in the application for safer delivery.The delivery boy while collecting the package will verify the details provided in the application and collect the package.Customers also can book the delivery of new products where delivery is not provided at the purchasing point.They can also book for the delivery from their house to the place where they reside.The package must be in the weight that the delivery boy must be able to carry, if not extra charges will be applied.Application also directs the customer to book a cab, groceries delivery, and food delivery. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
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The novel coronavirus infection SARS-CoV-2, which broke out in China in December 2019, has rapidly spread around the world. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) assigned this infection pandemic status. Pregnant women and puerperae occupy a special place in the structure of the incidence of COVID-19. For more than a year and a half, the Lapino Clinical Hospital of the Mother and Child Group of Companies has accumulated significant experience in managing patients with COVID-19, including pregnant women and puerperae. This article presents the features of the course of the new coronavirus infection in pregnant women and puerperae during various periods of the pandemic, the experience of managing pregnancy and childbirth in the above group of patients, and methods of treatment.
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Electronic commerce (E-commerce) along with online shopping is rapidly increasing now-a-days specially in current scenario of COVID 19 pandemic. Such immensely expanding online marketing creates a plethora of opportunities for the companies to trade wider on the globe as well as enabling the customers to avail better products at their increased convenience. In this paper, we have addressed the affects of financial loss related to the return and replacement policy of online shopping particularly in Cash-on-Delivery (CoD) payment method. We have proposed a software solution using semaphore programming tool for the efficient management of CoD payment method. Analysing the customer’s previous transaction records, the proposed method determines suitable policy for the return and replacement option of the concerned customer. The objective is to minimize the financial loss for an unnecessary cancellation and replacement policy without hampering customers’ interest. Hence we have proposed an algorithm for efficient CoD management. The proposed algorithm uses counting semaphore to implement a customer reputation variable which will help the companies to keep track of each customer for each transaction precisely and determine a suitable penalty policy for the return and replacement option of the said customer. The working principle is demonstrated through a flow chart. We have performed extensive simulations in python to establish the novelty of the proposed approach. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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The purpose of this exploratory study is to examine the maturity of South Africa's provincial government departments in engaging with the Infrastructure Delivery Management System (IDMS) towards facilitating effective infrastructure delivery. Furthermore, the study sought to formulate evidence-based interventions that could be utilised by these government departments to engender successful delivery of infrastructure assets and associated services to their beneficiaries. This research was descriptive and employed the quantitative research approach. Data was elicited from three provincial government departments in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Structured maturity modelling questionnaires were deployed for data collection from the respondents. The emergent data was analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), Version 26. A One-Way ANOVA, aimed at enabling a comparative analysis of differences in the degree of maturity between the three provincial government departments that utilise the IDMS, was conducted. Results from the study indicate that the three departments (cases) had a maturity rating between 3 and 4, signifying well-defined and documented standard processes that can be improved over time. However, an IDMS-ready organisation would ideally have a maturity rating at level 5. In addition, the leadership dimension was found to be a driver of all other dimensions, where a high maturity level under this dimension directly correlates with improved maturity in the other dimensions. It is recommended that adequate management and leadership support is needed to improve organisational maturity in relation to IDMS implementation. The study was confined to KwaZulu-Natal, due to the short survey period for information gathering and data collection. The COVID-19 pandemic also had a great impact on the undertaking of some key research processes mostly affecting the research methodology, particularly during data collection. This study is the first of its kind in South Africa to assess the maturity of provincial government departments to implement the IDMS, which is indicative of an evaluation void gap.